Highlighting Empowering Women
Claudia Alexandra Feliciano Madriz Meza, aka Snow Tha Product, she is an amazing Mexican-American rapper that comes from San Jose, California. She represents her community in the way she flows. With hit songs, “Waste of Time”, “Bilingue”, “Gaslight”, motivates you women to keep going no matter. Snow is a strong advocate for People of Color, Women’s Rights, LGTBQ rights, and much more. In her raps she heavily represents what it means to be a Mexican-American woman in the industry. We can look up to her because she is a successful woman from the hood, that never switch up who she really is. Snow shows her authentic self even through the fame.
Gloria E. Anzaldúa was a queer Chicana writer, poet, and feminist theorist. She is know for her poems and essays that have full emotions, expression in the heavy oppressions that is placed on people of color, and of course the whole idea of identity. One of my favorite books that she published, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987), this book talks about identity in many ways. Not only in culture, but in the ideas of feminisms and queer. She shifts the idea of white feminisms to Latinx Feminism. She pay the way for a lot of Chicanx, queer or not, to challenge the writing and reading in the academic/political spaces.
“Write with your eyes like painters, with your ears like musicians, with your feet like dancers.
You are the truthsayer with your tongues of fire. Don’t let the pen banish you from yourself.”
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw is a law professor at Columbia and UCLA. She also coined “intersectionality”, the interconnected nature of social categorization such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. In simply terms, that there is oppression and injustice to the different groups like Sexisms, Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Class, and ablelism. Mostly, she used this to explain the oppression of African-American women. We, in the academic spaces and social justice spaces, like to use this theory for more critical thinking. It is important for us to look outside of the box, not just the little picture.
“We are a society that has been structured from top to bottom by race.
You don’t get beyond that by deciding not to talk about it anymore.
It will always come back; it will always reassert itself”